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Disneyland: Epcot

began our day at Disneyland earlier than the previous day at Universal Studios, for a 7 clock we were already at the breakfast table. Before us lay a impossible task: four huge theme parks and only a day time. Therefore, we deleted - all the parking plans in hand - the Disney Studio Park immediately from the list (he remembered too much to the Universal Studios the night before) and concentrated on Animal Kingdom, Epcot and the first ever built Park: Magical Kingdom.

ran on television, meanwhile, the breaking news about the last unsuccessful round of negotiations between unions and Disney Channel. The first, more and more into certainty impending strike at Disneyland (the loud self-promotion happiest place on earth) held currently at Orlando in the breath was still almost every job in the tourism industry more or less dependent vom Erfolg des Parks. 

Bisher konnte Disney Streiks dadurch entkommen, daß sie nur Immigranten mit vaguem Immigrationsstatus beschäftigten, die bei Bedarf einfach des Landes verwiesen werden konnten bzw. älteren Herrschaften, die froh waren überhaupt einen Job, egal wie schlecht bezahlt zu haben. Irgendetwas an dem Rezept scheint nicht mehr aufzugehen und zusammen mit der Nachricht über das ersten Mordopfer in Celebration, der von Disney gegründeten Stadt, sahen viele den Zenit des ungebremsten Wachstums überschritten. 

Uns sollte all das aber an dem Tag nicht stören, okay wir dachten schon über die Möglichkeit von Warnstreiks nach, waren jedoch eher mit logistischen Problemen beschäftigt. Da Animal Kingdom um 17.00 Uhr die Tore schließt, wollten wir damit anfangen, dann Epcot und zum Schluß ging es ins Magical Kingdom, das bis 23.00 Uhr geöffnet war.

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Disney ist außerdem berühmt-berüchtigt für seine hohen Getränke- und Essenspreise, so daß wir uns mit zwei großen Wasserflaschen und Brotpaketen eindeckten. (Zum Glück kamen sie bisher nicht auf die Idee mitgebrachtes Essen zu verbieten, aber sie wissen wohl einfach, daß die Leute genug Zeit im Park verbringen um irgendwann doch etwas kaufen zu müssen.) Dann saßen wir im Bus und fuhren durch die riesige Hotellandschaft Orlandos. To think that 20 years ago people on their way to Disney still proceeded in the orange groves fall, almost heavy. After some time, completed the hotel and the highway leading directly into the 15,000 hectares of large Disney territory.

Now everything was Disney, the road, the forest, the colorful street signs, some with mouse ears, and signs of the four parks, two water parks and 23 Disney-owned theme hotel villages. Our journey ended at the bus station in Epcot, in time for park opening at 9:00 clock. There we waited for our bus to Animal Kingdom, but since the travel times are very opaque, and we waited too long, we decided to deviate from the plan and us - we were already there - Epcot to see and check off.

(I can see behind it is not any trick that the car fanatic Americans may indeed want their car in the first car park and to submit to it the really annoying waiting times for Disney buses, although it more convenient for them as much would be easy from park to park . Perhaps we may take a day only park in a parking lot or it will cost each time a lot of money. Anyway, it works ...)
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Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow was and was originally planned as a futuristic city of 20,000 inhabitants. Instead, in 1982 opened theme park was ultimately in the areas of science, ecology, and "the world" divided and is the park that most appeals to an adult audience (this is why also in the entire park beer sold at the Magic Kingdom for example, absolutely no alcohol is available.)
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began the scientific community in many ways, where the Kennedy Space Center ended, we shot a few photos before the "Spaceship Earth" ball and soon reached the area of ecology. There we took a tour of the greenhouses, the real, completely un-Disney's Agricultural Science Laboratories, which dealt with how agriculture more environmentally friendly but can be also machined. (In my opinion, a contradiction.) Then we went to Soarin a 3D waddled show in which the seat is not only, but is moved up and then actually be free to "float", which was fun, even for me.
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Well, we went to the real attraction of the park: the world, a lake with the replicas of eleven relatively arbitrary selected "states" that we roll up counter-clockwise.

We decided there shot too many pictures for this article, I will introduce the relevant countries in the following two pictures posts. What was
me a little irritated that it has made not a single East European country to the list.

After with Mexico, the last of the countries visited, we went to the exit and we went via bus to Animal Kingdom.